TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAT, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANT MAN. BY THOMPSON, S3??TH & JA YNES. -WAI.HAL.LA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MARCH 16, 1893. VOLUME XLIV.-NO. ll. ew liooos ano Bargains ! im . awe j Gold Medal, Fancy Patent Highest Patent Good Family ... SYRUPS ! (-rood New < Orleans Molasses Pest. Open Kettie New Orleans RICE ! Good New Orleans Rice P. st New Orleans Whole i - Carolina Head =? oO 1 50 50 35 50(3 tin SEEDS-Ferry's, and- Buisfs Garden. OATS- Texas Red Ruse Proof, GO oont: POTATOES ! Early Rose and Early 3. SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE FOR 1893. PARTIAL PROSPECTUS. c w - FRANCES HODGSON' BURNETT will contribute tJiu tirst serial.to appear in a magazine liam ber pen for many years, entitled "THE ONE 1 KNT.W THE BEST < >F ;/. r. RUNNER will furnish a series ?.!' six sketches; en tiled "JERSEY STREET AND JERSEY LANK." Illustrated: ROBERT ORANf will relate the further experiences of Fred, and Josephine in "A SEQUEL T< . THE REFIdECITONS OF A MARRIED M AN.'" Illust rated. II A h<> I. h FREDERIC will contribute i political :i>.?. ?.d of great power, entitled "THE COPPERHEAD.*' RY TUE AUTHOR OF "JERRT.V Miss S. I?. EU.10TT. th?- author "Jerry." will write a realistic story of ; life among the Tennessee mountaineers. "TIIK DURKET SPERRET.*' PERSONAL REMJNISi ENA ES. SOME UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF CARLYLE TO E1)\VARD HIVING ami others, dealing with a part -of Carlyle's life far different from that brought ?"it 1 in the recent literature of Carlyle remi niscences. RECOLLECTIONS OF I.I N COLN AND SUMNER, by che late MAUQCIS DE Cll.\Mi:i:t X. Both articles, are full of new matter. AN ARTIST IN : JAPAN. By ROBERT BLCM. who has just returned from a r< sidence of nearly two years in that country. Abundantly illustrated hy th?- author. HISTORIC MOMENTS, which have leen a feature . .f tlie magazine during will be con tinued by sonn- particularly striking pa pers, among them several by the gr.-at war correspondents. WILLIAM ll. Rus si.i.. A;:< nir.Ai.i' FORBES, and olin ;-. MEN'S OCCUPATIONS. A series of articles on thc ljfe work of men in many callings-the chief ways (exclusive of professions) in which !:-.?:. earn their livelihood. 'I?IE WORLD'S FAIR IS CHICAGO. ' A ?cries will be published hiter in the year*giving the impressions made by the exhibition upon different observers .>: note, both American and foreign; and many of the?e observers will be also artists who will illustrate their own arti cles. MI Sf'EL '? ANEOUS ARTICLES. : Further contributions to the f*i n >R IN 1 GREAT CITIES. MKS. BCRXETT?S il- , iustrated paper on the London plan for , HOME AID To INVALID CHILDREN, 1 etc. Of special interest also will he PRO- I FSESOR HKIM'IUX'S authoritative account 1 of the PEARY RELIEF EXPEDITION , (illustrated.) a ven,'.interesting article by . 0< :AVK ANNE on the exhibition of 1 WO M AN "S AKT now going on in Paris. . and articles upon artistic subjects, ac- j counts of travels, etc., etc. - THE IL L US TUA HONS \ \ of the year will represent the work not only of the well-known illustrators, but J many drawing wiB also appear by artists I ' who are best known as painters. TERMS I l 25c a dumber. ' iui nnxD T^TT**T J; i/lL Uf I Lil, for 1892 and : . a subscription for ltW.".$4.50'? The same, with back numbers, lound - ? in cloth. 0.00 - Now is the time to subscribe. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 743 Broadway, New ? ork. j i How to (uro a Cold. Almosl everybody has a remedy for i cold, which ho is ever ready to recommend t< others after detailing ?is <>wn experience. Thi Boston .Toivrttul "j' C?nimefce juntes from a medical writer some idvie< on this sabject wbichseems to >e more limn ordinarily useful. When one becomes chilled, or takes rold, the mouths of myriads of little ?weal glands are soddenly closed, ami the impurities winch should puss off through the skin arc forced back at the intcrior of the body,*vitiating the >?<><"? .md putting extra work on the ungs and ...uer internal organs. Jus? ?encath the surface of the skin, ali ?vei the body, there is a ne*work of ninnie b'ldrjd vessels, tiner than the iucsl ?ace: When one is chilled the >lood is forced from these capillary ressels into erne or more of thc inter ial orgaus, producing inflammation >r congestion, and thus often causing liseuses dangerous to life. The time treat a cold is at tho earliest pos ? :: voa fee! that you have taken cold ?ave a g< A ?ire in your bedroom. 1'ut y?>ur f< .-t into hot water, as hot is can be borne, and containing a tablespoonful of mustard. Have it n a vessel so deep that the waler A-iii come lip well toward the knees, fhrow a blanket over the whole to prevent rapid evaporation and cooi ng. In from live to ten minutes take the feet out, wipe them dry, and *el into a bed on which there are two .xtra blankets. .lust before or after getting into bed drink a large glass >f lemonade as hot as possible, or a xlass of hot water containing a tea *po< aful of ( ream of tartar, with a i little sugar if desired. Should lhere be a pain in the chest, side or hack, indicating pleurisy or pneumo nia, dip a small towel in cold water ind wring it as dry as possible. Fold Lhe towel so that il will cover a lit tle more surface than is affected by ibo pain. Cover this with a piece of Dannel, and both with oiled silk, or better, with oiled linen ; now wind a strip of flannel a foot wide several times around the chest. The heat >f the body will warm the towel almost immediately) the oiled linen md lianne! will retain the heat and moisture, and, steaming the part, will generally cause the pain to dis appear. Shculd there be a pain or soreness in the throat, you should treat in a similar manner with wet compress and flannel? bandage. Eat sparingly of plain, . simple rood. Baked apples and other fruit,; bread and butter, bread and milk; milk toast, baked potatoes or raw oysters may be eaten. By following. the above directions intelligently and faithfully you will ordinarily che?k the progress' bf the cold and prevent serious, possibly .fatal, illness. W. Atlee Burpee & Co., of Philadel phia, Pa., thc Champion Seed Grow ers of America-Their Unparal leled Success and Why They Sell Such Immense Quan tities of Seeds. EDITORS KEOWEE COURIER: As the time for gardening is near at hand, will you kindly allow the space in your columns for one who, can, from experience, inform such of your readers as expect to engage in the business of gardening, either for pro ! tit or pleasure, where it would be to their interests to obtain their sup ; (-.lies of seeds? It is from the well established and reliable firm of W. Atlee Burpee & Co., of Philadel phia, Pa. Those who buy from this linn will riot only get seeds that are fresh and pure, but such as are true to name and exactly as represented. Some persons think it wise econ omy to save their own seeds and a useless expenditure of money to buy, ? but the experience of toe most suc cessful gardeners proves this to be a mistake, as seeds saved from our earliest and finest vegetables do not ?nature so well and cannot equal those that come from a colder cli ! mate. The small amounts of money we individually pay for seeds each year is a very little matter, but if those seeds prove faulty or imma ture, windi is sometimes the case, and we take into account our loss of time .and labor, the use of the land and value of the fertilizers, then, worse than all, the disappointment j and failure to obtain the crops we j desired, it amounts in the aggregate j Ito a loss indeed. Good seeds alone can produce good crops, and few i things are more annoying or more productive of disappointment than that are false or impure.*^ To begin Wit li: ITA: nr '^?^ Atlee Burpee & Co. is not only expe rienced, but has ample means and every facility that human ingenuity and skill can devise for carrying .n their work. As to their honorable dealing and reliability their numer ous customers, scattered throughout all the States and Territories, will ! testify. Fordhook Farm is the name of, their extensive grounds, where are raised their immense supplies of seeds of every kind, their various grains and grasses, their rare plants j and beautiful Howers, their pure, poultry and thoroughbred stock. Let us, in imagination, pay a visit j i to Fordhook ?luring the busy season. \ What a scone presents itself : what ? a vast collection of seeds; what a. : variety ol rare plants and ornamen ta! vines: what lovely flowers;! what an exhibit of fancy poultry and blooded stock: the varied im- < pleincnts. tiie numerous machines, : the systematic arrangement in every department, che busy action in every nook and. comer, all tell the story of granel success. Science there is com bined wu: capital and skilled labor. ; Where else can you find such groups of happy, oontented and well-trained workers? Where else such varied machinery ,for saving man s work? And yet. :;s an evidence of the amount ! of work done, the Philadelphia Inqui- j rer says thal from 125 to 150 hands are ?ngaged in handling the seeds alone. It has been said that the wild j strawberry aad th*e sour grape, by i scientific training and culture, may become thc finest of fruits. The growing of seeds is with Burpee *fc C'o. a science, the success of which they may well be proud, as they have* but few equals and no superiors. Seeds are brought by them' from Europe and Asia, from South Ame rica, from faraway Russia apd China, from every region and every climate, . but in no case are such seeds cata logue'! or offered for sale until they have been thoroughly tested in their trial grounds, which grounds are admirably arranged and ?sed for this purpose alone. The object of this is to experiment with all known seeds," acclimate them, if possible, then retain and develop those that i are adapted to American soils. In this way some of the finest seeds in the world have been obtained. Some years ago an employee of the finn, ar. intelligent Chinaman, was sent to travel through the inte ; rior of his native country for the pur i pose of collecting seeds, but of the variety he succeeded in getting, none of them, on being thoroughly tested, were found to be suitable to Ameri can gardens, except some squashes, i which the firm styled the Der Wing, squash, io honor of its discoverer. This firm every year distributes gratuitously among their customers I thousands of packets: of untried seeds I -"novelties,"- they term them-but I in no instance will they offer them for sale or assume any 1 " onsibHity respecting them. It. established rule with the firm tc never catalogue or offer for sale any seeds until they have been effectually tested, both as to their purity and powers of ger mination, in-their trial grounds ; and so high is their standard of perfec tion that these experiments frequently extend through a period of * several year?. Perhaps the main reason of Burpee & Co.'s immense sales is, they have so few transient cuslom mers. Their customers are penna nent, and when once a customer is obtained he knows where bis interest is and remains a customer ever after wards. Burpee's beautifully illustrated Farm Annual is sent to each and every customer the first of January each year. Fro TI this annual one can make his selections of seeds, with full directions when and how to plant, and with as much assurance of suc cess as if present at their immense warehouses in Philadelphia. All seeds sold by them are guaranteed perfect of their kind, and considering the quality are cheaper than can be bought anywhere else. Any one ordering as much as $1 worth of seeds is allowed to select packets to the amount of 25 cents extra, thus getting $1.25 worth of seeds for ?1. Postage is paid by the firm on all packets of seeds ordered from them to any part of the United States, and no respon sible seedsman in the world can afford to sell seeds equally as pure for less money. In addition to the large supplies of garden and farm seeds* grown and sold by L;arpee & Co., they are said to be among the largest growers of flower seeds in the world. Many acres of their grounds at Fordhook are devoted to growing rare and spe cial flowers alone. Another important feature of the j establishment is their large anti com plete department of fancy poultry and thoroughbred stock. But, as this communication is already longer than was intended, a sketch of this, i . i together with the growth of special: flowers, may be given in a future] article., S. HUNTER. Westminster, S. C., .March 14, '93. j 3 I Curious Observations of Home Folks in Washington. [Washington Letter to The State.] There h? ?. singular condition of ; things up lure. Perry and Col. ^augbman have gone over to But ler's side and the Tillman men are very bitter against them* Senator irby is Threatened with a\ case of pneumonia, and he and the Governor remained quietly in their rooms this afternoon. # * -* I J. F. J. Caldwell, of Newberry, is here, with strong endorsements fori the Italian mission, the salary of which is ?12,000 a year. There are three or four other applicants from other Statrs. Mr. Caldwell has lived in Rome, speaks the Italian language and is very familiar with Italian affairs. He was in Italy at the time of the Garibal li movement. Judge Bacon is applying for his old mission-Paraguay and Uruguay. It has been macy years since South Carolina has had a chance at the . European missions. Col. J. J. McLare, of Chester, Dr. A. P. Jordan and Gen. John Bretton arrived here to-day. The latter holds a good place in the race for Revenae Collector. Dr. Land rum, of Spartanburg, has also arrived, to look after a place in the medical department of the gov- j ern merit. Dr. Pope is going to romain here j wifh Irby. *TIe has not yet filed his application for marshal. He would not ask a single Conservative to sign : lt" / . . . Irby is still pulling .for Karie fori District Attorney. Fie received al: of Earle's papers last night and will present them in person. Irby, when asked to-night if the statement timi he was going to resign the State Chairmanship were true or not, said : "Personally, I might be very much inclined to do so, but i there are political reasons which have made nie decide that I would" not. The main one of these reasons' is that our people will not let me give it up." Winter silk petticoats are beauties and have adapted themselves to cold weather and taken on luxurious warmth with their prettiness. This has been managed by lining them with flannel. Delightful color com binations are produced thus: For example, a. striped shot-silk of blue, fawn and yellow is lined with blue flannel. The edge has. a ruffle simi larly lined and the two pinked ? together. Other skirts have the ruf fle's edge turned in and several rows of cord stitched between thc outside and lining. A small woven cord sewed along the edge prevents thc skirt from wearing. Quilted skirts are greatly in vogue and are made from the fabric spoken of above, and also from varieties woven on purpose for skirts. Moreen skirts also are much worn. They are woven with moire effects and are plain and in stripes of two colors, black and scar let being particularly liked. Women must consider it a dread ful fate to be an old maid, mused Mr. Chugwater. They do, Josiah, said Mrs. Chugwater. What terri ble sticks they sometimes marry to escape it. And then Josiah rubbed his chin and said nothing. ST WK OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLKDO, I LUCAS COUXTY. j' %' Frank J. Cheney?makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the city of Toledo, county and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot bc cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENET. . Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. , j A. W. GLEASON, j SEAL. > ' s^-v-*^ ' Notary Puolic. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood'and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testi monials, free. ./ F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. ? By Sold by druggists, 75 cents. ' THE WORK OF THE FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. WASHINGTON-, March 5.-The sil ver and tariff questions, the anti-op tion bill and the reduction of appro priations were the leading topics of consideration by the Fifty-Secorfd Congress, which expired by consti tutional limitation at noon yesterday. Secondary only in importance to these matters were the measures re lating to the World's Fair, equip ments of railroads with automatic car couplers, national quarantine and immigration, Behring Sea and Ha waiian annexation. Nothing of an affirmative nature, except to prevent two items in the McKinley law tak ing effect, was actually accomplished as far as respects silver, tariff or anti-option - action taken on each one of these questions in one branch of*Congress being negatived by the action or non-action of the other branch. The result of the agitation of the necessity for retrenchment of expen ditures is not apparent in any con siderable change in the aggregate j appropriations carried hythe national supply bills, for they amount to ! about as much as in the Fifty-First Congress-laws on the statute books preventing some large reductions, which otherwise would have been made, while the decrease which it was possible to effect wa?! offset by increased appropriations for pensions and rivers and harbors. The condition of the public tre sury, however, though it did not re sult in the Fifty-First Congress get ting below the billion-dollar limit, undoubtedly influenced legislation to a considerable extent, and prevented the authorization of many proposed new expenditures for improvements , of the public service, for public build ings, for the payment of claims and for other purposes. A notable in stance of the operation of this inila ence is seen in the fact that not a ? single public building bill passed the House, and it was only by putting a 1 number of them on the sundry civil appropriation bill that any authoriza tions whatever for public buildings were secured. The silver question was kept stead ily before the attention of Congress by the alternate efforts of the advo cates of free coinage and of the re peal of the Sherman law. The coin age committee of the House, in the ; first session, reported a free silver! bill, which, after an exciting debate, was saved from defeat by the casting vote of the Speaker, but was after ward filibustered to death, the friends of the bill failing to secure the signa tures of a majority of the Democrats to a petition asking for a cloture rule in its behalf. The Senate then passed a free coinage bill; but when the free silver men renewed their light in the House, they were out numbered by 14 votes and of course failed. The anti-silver men met similar fate in their efforts to secure the repeal of the present law, the Senate refusing, by a decisive vote, to con-, sider it. and the House killing the Andrew Cate bill by declining toi vote so as to give its friends thc par liamentary right to move cloture on j it, without which it concededly! should never be forced to a vote in the c osing hours of Congress. . On the tariff, the dominant party in the House adopted a policy of at tacking the McKinley Act in detail, largely for political reasons, and j partly for the reason that in view of the political complexion of the Sen-j ate it was practically out of the ques- j tion to pass a general tariff revision ; bill through the Senate, while a spe- ; cial measure might stand more show j of passage. The result was the en actment into law pf two bills, con taining block tin on the tree list and fine linen at 35 per cent ad valorem. Under the McKinley law, large duties were to take effect on these items in the near future. Other separate bills were passed through the House only to be pigeon-holed in the Senate as follows : Free wool and reduction of duties on woollen manufactures, free cotton bagging machinery, free binding twine, free silver lead ores, (where the value, not weight, of the silver exceeds that of lead in any importation), freo tin plate, terne plate, and taggers tin, and the limitation to *10U of the amount of personal baggage return ing tourists may bring into thc Uni ted States. The anti-option bili passed both Houses, but was kille*! by the refusal of the House to suspend the rules and agree by a two-thirds vote to tiie amendments put on the bill by the Senate, the opponents of the measure manoeuvring so as to pre vent Mr. Hatch making effective his majority in favor of the measure and forcing him at the last moment to try suspension of the rules. ^ The pure food bill, the running mate of the anti-option bill, passed the Senate, but was never able to get consideration in the House. World's Fair legislation comprised a grant of ?2,500,000 in souvenir half dollars in aid of the fair, the closing of its gates on Sunday, the appropria tion of various amounts for different fair purposes and the passage ofsun dry Acts of special nattffe and minor importance. The automatic coupler bil!, ehorn of its drastic features, was enacted into law, as was also the national quarantine bill, increasing the pow ers of the Marine Hospital Service to meet the threatened dangers from cholera, and the immigration law, imposing additional restrictions in immigration, but not suspending it entirely. The Senate averted trouble over the Behring Sea seal fisheries by ratifying the treaty of arbitration. It also ratified extradition treaties with Russia and other countries, 1>ut j still has before it the treaty of an nexation of the Hawaiian Islands. , The opening pf the Cherokee Out- ' let was provided for in the' Indian bill under the clause appropriating $8,295,000 fer'its purchase from the. Indians; $290,000 to be paid in cash and ?3,000,000 in t? vc equal annual installments. Approximately, 425 Houseaud 235 Senate bills and Joint Resolution* became laws, making 660 Acts put on the statute books as the result of the work of Congress. A majority of these measures were of interest only to individuals or localities, being for the relief of citizens, for the bridging of streams, for thc District of Columbia, for rights of way, etc. An unusual proportion of claims bills were for the relief of .Southern men. The House passed, in round nam hers, 624 bills, of which 200 failed of passage in the Senate, and in the neighborhood of ??? bills passed by the Senate failed in the House, in-j eluding a long list of public building j bills, many private pension bills , and other measures including increased expenditures. Three bills were vetoed by the President, viz: To refer the McGar rahan claim to the Court of Claims (a second Mci Jarraban hill failing of action in the House), to amend the Court of Appeals Act, ami in rela tion to marshals in Dnited Stales Courts in Alabama. This last bill became a law by passage over the veto, Senator Hoar stating that it had been vetoed through a misunder standing of its provisions. The President subjected three bills to a u[?ocket" veto, and two other! h?ls failed of engrossment in time \ for presentation to him. All were of comparatively small importance.: Among thc measures of import ance which failed to get the endorse-1 ment of either House were bills for the creation of a sub-treasury sys tem ; for an extensive system of for tifications ; for a uniform system of bankruptcy; for taxation of Federal not"s and repeal of the tax on State banks; to transfer thc revenue cut ter service to the navy; for an alco- j holic liquor commission: constitu tional amendments making thc Pre sident ineligible to re-election, chang- : ing the time of the meeting of Con- j gress and for woman suffrage ; irri- ; tation and arid lands bill; the Nica ragua Canal bill; to permit railroad pooling (beaten on a test vote); tn establish postal savings banks; for an income tax : to refund th*e cotton tax; to repeal the mail ship subsidy -Vet; to repeal the Federal election laws. POLITICS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON/, D. C.. March 9. The President to-day sent the follow ing nominations to the Senate : Josiah Quincy, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary of State; Robt. A. Maxwell, of New York, Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gene ral ; Isaac P. Cray, of Indiana. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo t ntiary of the United States to. Mexico: Patrick A. Collions, of Massachusetts, to be Consul General of the CTnited States at London; Edward Mansfield Shipp, of Vir ginia, Assistant Surgeon in the Navy. Secretary Carlisle to-day appoint ed his son, Logan Car'' lc, Chief Clerk of the Treasury, vice Stocks, resigui?. Hobt. A. Maxwell, nominated to be For th Assistant Postmaster Gen eral, i a citizen of Batavia. -Sew York, ?ind a man nf means, having amassed considerable money as a malster, from which business he re tired several years ago. For twent) years he has been prominent in poli tics in New York. He is recognized as a Democrat of the old school. He was one of thc leading spirits in thc "anti-snapper*" convention and has long been a warm personal friend of Cleveland and Postmaster General Bisseil. About a year ago he was removed from the office of State in surance Commissioner by Governor Flower, and at the time it was charged that his removal was due to Maxwell's fri em ll in ess to Cleveland. Tlie [?ist he will fill will be similar to that formerly occupied by vice President Stevenson and now to be vacated by B. G. Rathbone, of Ohio. WASHINGTON I). C., March 9. Postmaster General Bissell is accred ited witit*t.>e announcement that no local bnslij'-'Ss. ?nen need apply for post offices under his administration. He objects to commissioning local business men as postmasters for the reason that the actual duties art per formed by irresponsible ami often i incompetent c. rks ami substitutes, j Postmasters under Bissell must ; promise to devote their entire time to the work ami personally keep strict office hours. Representative Springer, cf Uli- ; nois, who was one. of the President's j callers to-day, asked him if the rule j of not appointing men who had held office under him four yoars ago was to prevail as reported. The Presi dent replied in the affirmative, ami when asked if the rule was inflexible Cleveland responded that it would be so substantially. There might be exceptional and extraordinary cir cumstances which might cause some departures from it, but he could not, call to mind many possibilities to | justify a change from the poi icy de cided jipon. Springer as":od if the I rule wats also to apply to fourth class post-offices. Cleveland':; response was that he had not thought about that, but he gave the decided im pression that it would prevail to as*^ great an extent as possible with these small postraasterships. WASHINGTON, D..O, March 9. Secretary Carlisle this morning au thorized the announcement that he would exercise all the power and discretion vested in him to uphold the credit of the government and tc maintain the parity of gold and sil ver. This statement was made to brush away the endless sting of rumors that have gained circulation about what he cdntemplarf^d doing as to maintaining ine ?otd^.'reserve intact, as issuing bond*?os^>a?- to paying'Un?ted States rib^^^^rX-.m ted'States treasury not?i?n,silver when the free" gold was *?S$ta?sfced, etc. . \r - The. example of Denver,. G?lo- zn offeringl;l,000,?Of> in gold yesterday*! I>Air> TO POLICY HOLDERS, $33,000,000*00^ DP^VIO ITV X>IA"Il)E>r>S, $9,500,00000. THE PHOENIX POLICY." ABSOLUTE GUARANTEES-XO ESTIMATES. Ag? : 35. ?10,000. 20 Payment Life. Cost per yearj : $2S6.30. Cost for 10 years. : $2,S63.00. Grxirantees nt End of Ten Years: First Option-Extended Insurance for 16 years and 7 months longer for.. - $10,000 Second Option-Paid up Policy - - - $4,860 Third Option-Cash value. 81,980 Fourth Option-Loan at 6 j.c-r cent - - - $1,100 At end of 1" year?, ?''* First Option is taken, the policy holder gets 20 years and 7 months insurance, for $10,000, at a netcostof $2,863.00, which is at the rate of less than $1 LOO per $1,000 (guaranteed) per year. If Second Option, tin- Paid up Policy is in excess of cost, ^1,1*07. If Third Option, the net cost of Insurance for $10,000, * ?r ten years, is $SS3.00, or $8.83 per $1,000 per year. Guarantees at End of Twenty "Vears^ Cost for 20 Years : : : *0,72(J. First Option-Paid ap Policy .... $10,000 Second Option-Cash value .... $4,980 Third. Option-Loan at 6 per cent ... $2,700 Option- are given for every year in body of Policy in plain figures from '?> years upwards. Policy incontestable after two years. W. M. HUTSON, Gen. Agt.', Columbia, S. C. W. A. KAY, Dist. Agt., Greenville, S. 0. THE PHOENIX MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF HARTFORD, CONN. for treasurv notes has lujen followe l?v Chicago bankers, who offer? ?300,000 m goid tor United Stat? notes. At il.o Treasury Departmei it is thought tiiat bankers i:? otb* ? ities will do like? iso. There is feeling of relief as to the gobi bal ance at the treasury, and unless th exports wt gold Saturday are un usn ally heavy, of which rio informatio has yet been received, the Treasur Department will have ample gold t supply the demand. The treasury to-day received gol< at several points. In New York th gain made in gold was sion.noe while at New Orleans it recels e< ?20,000 ingold exchange for a lik amount in silver certificates. X< intimation has yet been received tba any gold will be exported on Satur day from New York and at the pres eut rate of exchange it is not though that any will be taken <>m bf lin country. The treasury has now mon than ?3,000,000 in tree gold, and ii the usual condition of trade this i: likely to be increased rather thai diminished. Il is quite plainly inti mated in the Treasury Department to-day that as between the issue o bonds and the use of a portion of lin ?100,000,000 gold reserve, if ti.c. sary lo maintain the parity of gol? and silver, Secretary Carlisle wi] resort to the latter plan, but that li? does not anticipate that the necessity wiil arise to do so. \VASIIIX<;TO.V, D. C., March 9. The one great feature of interest in political circles to-day is the visit oi Senator David 1>. Hill lo his greatest political rival, President Cleveland. Senator Hill came to the Whit? House this morning by appointment, presumably arranged bj Congress man Rockwell, of New York, during his visit to Mr. Cleveland Tuesday. That his visit w?s more than a mere perfunctory call is attested by the length of the interview. It lasted twenty min?tes and during that time Cleveland received no cards from the waiting politicians in the cabinet room. Mr. Hiil came early. The great flood ot office-seekers had not begun to flow into the White Souse when he arrived. He passed rapidly through the hallway to the public part of the mansion to the room of Private Secretary Thurber, who evi dently had been posted, for he Wash ered Hill into the adjoining exc?ia tive office without a momentle delay. When Hi^l entered the President's room word was sent to Door Keeper Loeffler that -Cleveland was very busily engaged and could not see any visitors for some time. As a conse quence the arriving delegations soon tilled the cabinet room, and by the time Hill left the White House there were more men than seats in the apartment. The interview was, of course, of a strictly private charac ter, but from the fact that it- baa been previously 'arranged, and from its length, there can be litt!? doub? that it was. of more than -a rfiere offi cial social character.. I'la ii t Less Coi ton. [< 'or. Home and Farm.] Farmers can now plainly sec what a reduction of the cotton acreage has done for the cotton tanner. The {?rice opened out at (ii c< nts a pound ; now the price is 9 to IO cents a pound. Mow I would urge ray bro thers to reduce their acreage next season at least ten per cent more and raise supplies at home. If this is done it wi!! insure l'Jj to L5*centS for cotton in the fail of [$93. Lam au old fanner in my three score years, and I have never seen a farmer prosper by raising ali cotton and haying all his supplies for man and beast. We have il in bur power to get our < \vn price for cotton. You ask how? I say raise all you con sume at home, and cotton asa sur plus. Eave it ginned, store in a good dry pb?ce ami wail for an agent from some cot-.on mili to come and ask you what you wiri take for your col ton. Sell enough lo pay year taxes and store the res:. A six or seven million bale crop cean* to 10 cents per pound : a nine million b-jJe crop means ? to 6 cents per pound. Which is best? Do not lei the risc in cotton run us crazy for I'-l, but let us Le wise and {?lauf ?ess colton and get more money for it. For a good whitewash take half a bushel ot rock lime, slack it with boiling water, cover it during the pru -e>s lo keep in the steam, strain the liquid ""through a tine sieve, add to it a peck of salt, previously weil dissolved in warm water: then add three pounds of ground rice boiled to a thin p.-iste and stirred in boiling hot; half a pound of Span-.sh whit ing and one pound of clear glue which has been previously dissolve?! by soaking it weil, and then hanging over a slow fire in a small kettle within a large one tilled with.water. Add live gallons of b